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Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences

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प्रश्न

Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences :

(a) coloured bus / children / we saw / full of / a yellow / excited /
(b) they were / we guessed / on the / planetarium / way / to the /
(c) part / this / study tour / of their / was /

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उत्तर

(a) We saw a yellow coloured bus full of excited children.
(b) We guessed they were on the way to the planetarium.
(c) This was part of their study tour.

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2014-2015 (March) All India Set 2

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

The writer carefully builds up an atmosphere of loneliness and grief in the story. Working in groups, pick out words/ phrases from the story that build up the atmosphere. Copy the following table in your notebook and complete it.

Loneliness Grief
• An old man was walking through the town, now and again drawing  his tattered clothes tighter to shield his body from the cold and biting wind
• his lonely way 
• the whole town was wrapped in deathly silence 

Complete the table by explaining the following phrases/ sentences in your own
words:

Phrases  Meanings
happy memories light up a life that is nearing its
close
 
the sounds helped him along his lonely way  
the cold used sleep to extend its sway over all
things even as a false friend lulls his chosen
victim with caressing smiles
 
when the evening of his life was drawing in, he
left his old ways and suddenly took a new
turn
 
the whole universe is built up through love and
that the grief of separation is inescapable
 
the post-master, a man with a face as sad and
as inexpressive as a pumpkin, would be seen
sitting on his chair inside
 
And so the clerk, like a worshipper of Lord Vishnu,
repeated his customary thousand names
 
The haughty temper of the official had quite left
him in his sorrow and anxiety, and had laid bare
his human heart
 

long term / on / reading / impact / has / a / one’s personality 


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